[mythtv-users] Help with pcHDTV

E. Mike Durbin mythtv at emike.org
Fri Dec 9 16:26:28 EST 2005


Just to be sure, I took the PVR-250 out of the box.

Also, I ran the atscscan as root.

# ls -l /dev/dvb
total 175
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root    144 2005-04-01 02:07 .
drwxr-xr-x  35 root root 178680 2005-12-09 10:11 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    248 2005-04-01 02:07 adapter0
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    248 2005-04-01 02:07 adapter1
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    248 2005-04-01 02:07 adapter2
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    248 2005-04-01 02:07 adapter3

ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter0
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     248 2005-04-01 02:07 .
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root     144 2005-04-01 02:07 ..
crw-rw----  1 root video 250, 1 2004-06-30 14:04 audio0
crw-rw----  1 root video 250, 6 2004-06-30 14:04 ca0
crw-rw----  1 root video 250, 4 2004-06-30 14:04 demux0
crw-rw----  1 root video 250, 5 2004-06-30 14:04 dvr0
crw-rw----  1 root video 250, 3 2004-06-30 14:04 frontend0
crw-rw----  1 root video 250, 7 2004-06-30 14:04 net0
crw-rw----  1 root video 250, 8 2004-06-30 14:04 osd0
crw-rw----  1 root video 250, 0 2004-06-30 14:04 video0

ls -l /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
total 48
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   168 2005-04-06 12:44 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    72 2005-04-01 02:10 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 12772 2005-04-06 12:44 dvb-fe-or51132-qam.fw
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 17532 2005-04-06 12:44 dvb-fe-or51132-vsb.fw
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  8518 2005-04-06 12:44 dvb-fe-or51211.fw

I too didn't see it loading the firmware --- but I don't get any error
messages either.  The messages in /var/log/message stop at:

Dec  9 10:13:20 video kernel: DVB: registering frontend 0 (Oren OR51132 
VSB/QAM Frontend)...

The atscscan doesn't generate any more messages, including any
possible errors loading the firmware.

Thanks!

emike


Keith C wrote:
> On Dec 9, 2005, at 2:16 PM, E. Mike Durbin wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi.  I've been using MythTV for over a year now with a
>> PVR-250.
>>
>> However, I can't get my new pcHDTV 3000 to work.
>>
>> I compile with the DVB modules.
>> /var/log/message:
>>
>> Dec  9 10:13:20 video kernel: cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.5 loaded
>> Dec  9 10:13:20 video kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.0[A] -> 
>> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
>> Dec  9 10:13:20 video kernel: CORE cx88[0]: subsystem: 7063:3000, 
>> board: pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV [card=22,autodetected]
>> Dec  9 10:13:20 video kernel: TV tuner 52 at 0x1fe, Radio tuner -1 at 
>> 0x1fe
>> Dec  9 10:13:20 video kernel: tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx88[0])
>> Dec  9 10:13:20 video kernel: tuner 1-0061: type set to 52 (Thomson 
>> DDT 7610 (ATSC/NTSC))
>> Dec  9 10:13:20 video kernel: cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:04:00.0, rev: 
>> 5, irq: 16, latency: 64, mmio: 0xdd000000
>> Dec  9 10:13:20 video kernel: cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
>> Dec  9 10:13:20 video kernel: cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
>> Dec  9 10:13:20 video kernel: cx88[0]/0: registered device radio0
>> Dec  9 10:13:20 video kernel: cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.5 loaded
>> Dec  9 10:13:20 video kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.2[A] -> 
>> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
>> Dec  9 10:13:20 video kernel: cx88[0]/2: found at 0000:04:00.2, rev: 
>> 5, irq: 16, latency: 64, mmio: 0xde000000
>> Dec  9 10:13:20 video kernel: cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based dvb card
>> Dec  9 10:13:20 video kernel: DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]).
>> Dec  9 10:13:20 video kernel: DVB: registering frontend 0 (Oren 
>> OR51132 VSB/QAM Frontend)...
>>
>> This looks good, but when I try dvb-apps:
>>
>>    cd dvb-apps/util/scan && ./atscscan 
>> atsc/us-NTSC-center-frequencies-8VSB
>>
>> I get:
>>
>>    scanning atsc/us-NTSC-center-frequencies-8VSB
>>    using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
>>    main:2229: FATAL: failed to open '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0': 6 
>> No such device or address
>
> That is a little strange.  Hopefully your PVR-250 is now on 
> /dev/video1 (set the first minor option to move it), since the HD3000 
> is grabbing video0.  Here's my /dev/dvb for my HD3000 (which I run 
> with a PVR500):
>
> # find /dev/dvb
> /dev/dvb
> /dev/dvb/adapter0
> /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
> /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0
> /dev/dvb/adapter0/ca0
> /dev/dvb/adapter0/osd0
> /dev/dvb/adapter0/net0
> /dev/dvb/adapter0/audio0
> /dev/dvb/adapter0/video0
> /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
> /dev/dvb/adapter1
> /dev/dvb/adapter2
> /dev/dvb/adapter3
>
> It might be a permissions issue on the devices, but your error says no 
> such device, so probably not.
>
> Keith C
>
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